when you look at the new economy, girls have got a lot of new opportunities, you know. media, i.t. industry. banking and entertainment. whichever sector you see, women are filling the ranks in a very major way. >> counseling center client puja never set foot in a school but she wants an education for her daughters and that's why she says she needs her husband's help to provide it. >> translator: women are progressing more in society and i need the support of their father so that they can grow up in a proper family. so that they can get a good education, so that they can grow up and have good marriages. >> she'll have an uphill battle, socially if not legally to provide her daughters with the family structure she calls ideal. but she says, the best dowry her daughters could have, is an education. for religion and ethics news weekly, this is fred desa desam lasaro, in new delhi. >>> now, a conversation with jim wallace, about his new book, it's called "on god's side." andt's anppea to verce the country's problems by serving the common good. wallace is a religious activist, preacher a